Two Argentine Jews imprisoned for more than six years, whose release was urged by an American Jewish Committee delegation which visited Argentina last April — Jorge Ernesto Podolsky and Isaac Rudnik — shortly are to be freed, the AJ Committee learned here today.
This brings to six the number of Jews freed of the 13 on whose behalf the AJCommittee intervened, reported Jacob Kovadloff, director of South American Affairs of the AJ Committee.
Four others were released within days of the AJ Committee delegation’s conversations with Argentine President Leopoido Galtieri and Interior Minister General Alfredo St. Jean.
Word of the forthcoming release of Podolsky and Rudnik, as part of a group of some 100 prisoners to be freed, came to the AJ Committee from the representative body of Argentine Jewry, the DAIA, which has been continually active on behalf of Jewish prisoners, Kovadloff declared.
Podolsky was detained in November, 1974 and Rudnik in August 1975. Kovadloff hailed news of the releases as indicative of the Argentine government’s desire to move positively with regard to persons detained in past years.
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